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Brian Davis - Real World Example of Ethics in Action!

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Monday, April 19, 2010, In : Real World Ethics 


I was watching the last part of a golf tournament Sunday afternoon - the Heritage at Hilton Head Island and saw an example of ethics that really heartened me!

Two golfers, Jim Furyk and Brian Davis tied for the match and had to go into sudden death. In the first hole Davis (who has never won a PGA tourney) hit his second shot out of bounds to a very bad lie. He chose to play his third shot from there after much deliberation. (He could have dropped the ball somewhere else and taken a 1 stroke...


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Faking Perfection

Posted by The Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Monday, December 14, 2009, In : Real World Ethics 
On the Responsibility Project blog, Kathy McManus introduces an intriguing question on whether the wave of air-brushed, photoshopped, lip-synched, perfect performances of Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Yo Yo Ma are a new form of responsibility.

The editor of the magazine that featured a photoshopped Kelly Clarkson on the cover insisted that a magazine cover needs to be perfect and reflect "the essence of you at your best."  The producer of Jennifer Hudson's lip-synched performance of th...
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Be a Tiger?

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Sunday, December 6, 2009, In : Real World Ethics 
What is the most important thing about the recent revelations of Tiger Woods and his infidelities? 

It is how we respond to them.

ProEthics points out In their blog Ethics Alarms, that there is a big danger letting Tiger Woods off the hook too easily. (see the entire post here:  http://ethicsalarms.com/2009/12/06/tiger-woods-ethics-part-ii-yes-it-matters/

If society wants to be civilized and to provide a stable structure for children to grow and thrive, it must not accept Woods-style misconduc...
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Real World Ethics -- PR Firm

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, In : Real World Ethics 
This comes from POPS, a blog about the public relations industry by Jeremy Pepper. 

Jeremy talks about the sometimes uncomfortable position that firms will put their interns in -- asking them to do things that don't seem quite right.  If you are the intern, what do you do?  You want (and need!) the job that the internship could lead to.  You are just a newbie in a company and industry that has been around forever.  You're not sure if what they are asking you to do really is that big a deal - b...
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